Delivered Elements for Hong Kong

This section discusses:

  • Creation of delivered elements.

  • Element ownership and maintenance.

Global Payroll defines each business process for Hong Kong in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legislative requirements, while others support common or "customary" payroll practices.

All of the elements and rules delivered as part of the country extension were created using the core application—the same application you use to create additional elements or rules and configure existing elements delivered as part of the Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application PeopleBook, we do not reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools you need to define your own elements and rules) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).

The core application has the following characteristics:

  • It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules and elements of their payroll system and execute payroll and absence calculations. Global Payroll does not embed payroll-specific logic or computations in application code. Instead, it specifies all business application logic, such as earnings, deductions, absences, and accumulators, in terms of payroll rules and elements. Global Payroll enables the user to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enable the user to work in their preferred language or currency.

  • It provides a payroll processing framework—a flexible way to define and execute payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.

Country extensions have the following characteristics:

  • They are built using the core application.

  • They consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).

PeopleSoft delivers a query that you can run to view the names of all delivered elements designed for Hong Kong. Instructions for running the query are provided in PeopleSoft HCM: Global Payroll.

The delivered elements and rules of your Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they are owned and maintained by the customer or by PeopleSoft. Some elements and rules are maintained exclusively by PeopleSoft and cannot be modified, while others can be configured to meet requirements unique to each organization.

Understanding Element Ownership in Global Payroll

There are five categories of element ownership:

Field or Control

Description

PS Delivered/Maintained

Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.

PS Delivered/Not Maintained

Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.

Customer Maintained

Elements created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.

PS Delivered/Customer Modified

Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the customer has decided to take control (this change is irreversible).

PS Delivered / Maintained / Secure

Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control.

Understanding Element Ownership in Global Payroll for Hong Kong

Of the five ownership categories listed in the previous section, only PS Delivered/Maintained and PS Delivered/Not Maintained are used to define Hong Kong elements. Although Global Payroll for Hong Kong delivers some elements as PS Delivered/Maintained, the large majority of elements are designated PS Delivered/Not Maintained. This enables you to modify, update, and reconfigure the delivered elements to meet needs that are specific to your organization.

In the following table of elements supplied with Global Payroll for Hong Kong, the ownership of all elements is PS Delivered/Not Maintained with exceptions shown in column 2.

Note: These element types have no exceptions so are not shown in the table: absence entitlements, accumulators, arrays, absence takes, brackets, durations, dates, element groups, earnings, generation controls, proration rules, processes, sections, and writable arrays.

Element Type

Exceptions

Deductions

MPF employee and employer (regular and permitted—mandatory deductions).

Formulas

MPF formulas related to:

  • Base for employee and employer mandatory calculations.

  • Post processing for employee and employer mandatory calculations.

  • Pre processing for employee and employer mandatory calculations.

  • Resolution of employee and employer mandatory calculations.

Manage Historical Data Rules

Historical rule for employee MPF mandatory calculations.

Variables

MPF — Total voluntary contribution for permitted period.